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PETER E. lll'ALMSTRM AND PAUL E. DUMMER, NEV YORK, N. Y.

APPARATUS FOR THE IVIANUFACTURE OF BEVERAGES.

SPECIFIGATON forming part of Letters Patent No. 395,244, dated December 25, 1888.

Application tiled August 3, 1888. Serial No. 281,859. (No model.)

To all 'whom 'it may concern/.-

Be it known that we, PETER E. MALMSTRM and PAUL E. DUMnER, both citizens of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for the Manufacture of Efferyescent Beverages, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in the manufacture of effervescent or carbonated beverages, as set forth in t-he following specification and claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichm Figure l is a front elevation of a device for manufacturing effervescent beverages. Fig. 2 is a section along the line :r ir, l.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

ln the drawings, the letter A indicates a feeding-vessel. A series of feeding-vessels is shown, so that one vessel can be put at rest or be filled while another is being operated or emptied. Suitable openings or inlets, B, closed by covers or caps, can be used for filling the g `sels with water or suitable liquid. Safety-'valves (l and pressure-gages D can. be applied to the feeding-vessels. A gas-supply, E, is shown communicating with a branch, F. By opening the valve G gas under pressure can be forced through the spray-pipe or 'j etpipe ll, extending into the ini eriorof the feeding-vessel, so that the gas is thoroughly mixed with and dissolvml in the liquid in the feeding-vessel A.

By opening the valves K M the liquid in the feeding-vessel will be fed through the conduit l L onto the shelves N in the chargingvessel P. The shelves N are alternately inclined, so that the liquid will flow bach and forth until it reaches the dish O. After filling the dish O the liquid overfiows and passes to the bottom ot' the charging-vessel.

The gas-supply E communicates by a branch, Q, with the charging-vessel P, and by opening the valve R the gas is made to pass into the charging-'vessel and mixes with the liquid Honing Abach and forth along the shelves N.

From this description it will be seen that the liquid becomes charged with gas in the feeding-vessel, and this charged liquid passes over the shelves N in the charging-vessel P,

where it absorbs an additional quantity of gas, so that it becomes thoroughly saturated with gas before being fed through the valve T into siphons or other suitable receptacles.

By referring to Fig. l it will be seen that a series of feeding-vessels are provided, each of which communicates with the gas-supply E and with the charging-vessel P, and each of which can be shut off without disturbing the communications of the remaining feedingvessels. By this arrangement the charging- Vesscl P can be constantly supplied with liquid previously charged with gas in one of the feeding-vessels, and the operation of drawing the liquid fully charged with gas from the charging-Vessel P into siphons or other receptacles can be carried on without interruption.

That we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination of a feeding-vessel, A, a charging-vessel, P, a gas-supply pipe, E, a spray-pipe, H, connected with the gas-supply pipe and leading into the interior of the feeding-vessel to spray the gas within the 'body of liquid, a branch pipe, Q, leading. downward directly from the gas-supply pipe below the spray-pipe and opening into the chargingvessel to supply the liquid therein with an additional charge of gas, a pipe, L, connecting the lower portion of the feeding-vessel with the upper part of the charging-vessel to continuously conduct the gas-charged liquid from the feeding-vessel into the charging-vessel, and a discharge-valve, T, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with a feeding-vessel, A, a charging-vessel, P, containing` a series of zigzag trays, N, a gas-supply pipe, l, a spraypipe, l-l, connected with the gas-supply pipe and leading into the interior of the feedingvessel to spray the gas within the body of the liquid, a branch pipe, Q, leading downward directly from the gas-supply pipe below the spray-pipe and opening into the chargingvessel to supply the liquid flowing over the trays therein with an additional charge of gas7 a pipe, L, connecting the lower portion of the feeding-vessel with the upper part of the charging-vessel to continuously conduct the gas-charged liquid from the .feeding-vessel IOO into the Charging-vessel above the trays, and 'zt discharge valve, T, snbstztntiztlly as deing-vessels Without disturbing the ooininunication of the remaining' 'feeding-vessels, and 1 zt discharge-valve, T, Substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seais in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PETER E. MALMSTROM. PAUL'E. DUMMER.

Vitneeses:

W. C. HAUFF, E. F. KASTENHUBER.

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